Why The US Has So Many Prisoners
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I think I got the answer right on this but I am a black man so.... It's kind of like the Spanish kid who has all A's in Spanish
@@VEEZY55 - What about the American kid who has an F in English and an F in all other classes as well?
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Cute puppy. You can tell the food is good because her coat looks so nice!
Yea the best country in the world. No effing wonder that Hitler got all of his inspiration for his master plan from the u.s.
Haven't watched this yet, but I have a Masters in Criminal Psychology. Something I learned that a professor said that always stuck with me is, "The US justice system creates lifelong prisoners." And its absolutely true, we incarcerate at the highest rate in the world, and over 90 percent of individuals are re-incarcerated within 5 years of release. It's sad and a huge issue.
That's right... they don't want to rehabilitate. They want repeat "customers" to make money off of!
@@Jimmy1982Playlists Yup, for-profit prisons have been such a huge detriment.
Sounds like not releasing them and cutting spending in half would be the right approach.
Sometimes it is difficult to see the bars.
Recidivism is a great thing. The first step to a society with 0% recidivism is a society with 100% recidivism. Any other method means that there are innocent people in jail.
I had someone close to me go to jail. I knew the criminal justice system was fucked up before but then we had to jump through all these hoops to get them a job and an apartment. There were only a handful apartment complexes that rented to people who had criminal records in a big city in Texas. So the conclusion is: if people can't get housing and can't get jobs, then they are set up to fail/go back to jail.
Yup. It's a permanent stigma.
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I committed a felony in 2009, was sentenced to 14 months, served 11.
I _still_ can't get a job if they do background checks.
@@OdyTypeR I’m sorry! ❤️
Look at recidivism rates. Would you rent to them. The math says they are more likely to be back in jail before the final rent check is due
"did we know we were lying about the drugs? of course we did."
chills, horrified chills. i don't know how a human could possibly be so evil.
I do. It’s human nature.
You forget Hitler and the Nazis existed?
i just mean that i dont understand it. of course i fucking know that it still happens, ive experienced human cruelty my whole life as a queer person@@debeb5148
Power. Greed. lack of Empathy.
@@MW66VB Empathy doesn't make money. So it's worthless
Say it with me, "being 5% of the world population and 25% of the world prison population is not a cultural issue, it is a policy issue"
In America blacks arw 12% of our population but they commit 50% of all us crime
A failing one at that.
No. It's an issue of people not respecting the law.
Nothing more - Nothing less. That's why the USA has lots of prisons.
In fact, not enough, because in many cities, even murderers often get out of jail after only being behind bars overnight, and then released. Is it actually mystifying why crime has been increasing rather exponentially in the USA over the last few years? It hardly takes a genius to know what's occurring. It only takes a person who knows how to pay attention to the facts. Observe them -
Up until fairly recently ... the USA was one of the few nations which actually imprisoned criminals. But within the last few years, the USA under idiot Joe Biden has allowed criminals to run rampant and never face any consequences.
It's literally culture (of demonic ytsupremacist racism) feeding policy. Period.
@@scotthullinger4684crime has not been growing exponentially in recent years, it's seen a modest increase immediately following a massive decline.
Not being able to vote because of a past criminal conviction for which you SERVED YOUR TIME is insane.
How can a nation call itself the land of the free when one of the most essential rights is stripped from you for life because of a conviction?
FFS, here in Canada prisoners are allowed to vote WHILE IN PRISON, as it should be.
get convicted of one felony and you lose your right to vote to choose a president, yet Trump committed almost a hundred felonies and even if convicted he can still run to be president ..... make it make sense
That depends on the state. A lot of states have changed that
You can't call yourself free without religious freedom, so hush
@@debeb5148 If anything the USA is the nation without religious freedom where you're a pariah if you're not christian, especially if you're an atheist.
In the USA you're allowed to discriminate against people using your religion as your defence/excuse, so hush.
It's so they can keep people of color from voting. If most people in the prison system are black or Hispanic, all the more black and Hispanic people that aren't allowed to vote. This law will never change because of this.
I usually find it useful to say to people "the overwhelming majority of felons will be released some day. Even most murderers eventually get released. What kind of person do you want them to be when that day comes and they move in next door? Someone who has been beaten, starved, tortured, raped, and extorted for years? Or someone who has been taught better habits, structure, and been educated?" Obviously most people will choose the latter, and that makes them confront what they actually want prison to be about.
The thing is, most people in America don't actually *want* prison to be about rehabilitation. They might say they do, but they don't. They want punishment. They need to satisfy their revenge boners. The idea that some criminal out there is in prison just having a grand ol' time eating ramen noodles and playing spades makes them *seethe* with anger. But the justice system shouldn't be about revenge and punishment just to make people feel better. It should be about the betterment of society as a whole, and remember... those felons will get released eventually.
Also, it's important to remember, the vast majority of people in jail (not prison, they're different), around two-thirds at any given time, haven't been convicted of a crime yet. Just, y'know... throwing that out there. So the next time your local Sherriff (they run the local jails) is campaigning on being "haaaaard on scumbag criminals," that's mostly who they're talking about. People who haven't been convicted of a crime.
We want criminals. We want guns. We want punishment. We want ruined lives. We want injustice and the right to call it justice.
We want fear and sorrow and violence and rage and hopelessness and myth. Layer upon layer of myth. Myth multiplied by myth until it is greater than reality.
Above all we want law and order. And law and order is neither lawful nor orderly.
Law & order = putting poor/black/homeless/mentally ill in prison, often for minor offenses.
Absolutely beautifully said, and so true. On an encouraging note, a study came out a few years back showing that even victims of violent crime often want LESS severe penalties for their perpetrators. In fact, there’s a Washington Post article entitled, “Even violent crime victims say our prisons are making crime worse.” I’d link it but UA-cam doesn’t allow that.
It seems that America is slowly (too slowly) waking up from its hard on for tough or crime, cowboy justice. Maybe the generation after the next will live to see the end of the prison industrial complex.
I'm going to hijack your comment thread to add a number of things:
A) Anyone who believes that jail-time should equal torture do not believe that they will never go to jail themselves. But in the end, we are all animals, and if driven by the right set of stimulae, i.e. deprived of their home, family, friends, etc. they will inevitably steal in order to survive (which can in turn quickly devolve into other crimes, such as assault, and even homicide if it turns ugly, since nobody likes being robbed).
B) People who are treated like garbage will treat others as garbage. That is just a fact. I shouldn't even have to explain why.
C) There are people on the streets, or even in six or seven figure jobs who have caused as much if not more harm that many individuals who are doing time.
D) Republicans have been and will continue to make legal protesting harder, adding even more victims for the prison industrial complex. And given how difficult the system is to change, quite a few people do get frustrated, and do cause damage (often times, not where I would personally cause it). To be fair, history shows that change doesn't come by asking nicely...
E) The fact that there is no air conditioning is many prisons is unacceptable in a modern society. That not only makes the prisoners unhappy, but also adds discomfort to the wardens, personnel, etc. Personal experience: it is far easier for cooler minds to prevail in a cold environment, than a hot one.
F) With all of this in mind, why would I want to cooperate with the system? Death seems preferable to having to tolerate a prison system meant to torture any individuals caught in its web, and won't even guarantee I'll make it to the end of my sentence. And if I have homicidal tendencies, or just want to share my really bad day with somebody else (such as say, and offending officer who very much wants me arrested and sent to jail), and/or don't GAF if I go to hell (especially if I'm taking company with me), doesn't that put our officers, and any potential bystanders at risk? Wouldn't it be better to encourage criminals to surrender?
Not being able to hold a job that I like, come and go as I please, being able to buy, cook, and eat whatever I please, be able to use a computer, internet, or being able to date and have sex is punishment enough. But not having air conditioning and being exposed to violent criminals, without a policy saying that if they don't play nice, they get a counselling statement, and probably isolated for a little while is blinking INSANE.
And whoever helps perpetuate this system should be tossed in the very system that they created. And then their complaints can be used to help fix the very same system they've created.
Also, I can't help but add that the Jan 6th rioters who have been arrested have been complaining about their treatment. But have they been making plans to help fix the system?
You're absolutely right and I hope more and more people hear this and actually take steps towards implementing a better system. We're all in this together right?
When they made it "for profit", it stopped being about justice, public safety, and rehabilitation, and instead had only one purpose: money
That little part of the 13th amendment wasn’t a loophole. They 100% knew what they were doing when they wrote that.
#facts
Exactly. People don't realise that Lincoln bought the slavers out of the slavery business and made it a public institution instead of a private one
They was scared of them slave. Even though they have destroyed a lot of what we have accomplish. we are still in the Game. 😊
"The degree of civilization of a society can be judged by the condition of its prisoners." Dostoevsky
Why does that matter? They do crimes, they do bad things, they should be treated like pigs or worse.
@@debeb5148 he said it ppl like you in mind
“The mark of an advanced civilization is a police force”
-Ssethzteenchtach
@@debeb5148 What's your default characterization of a defendant in court? A natural-born unmitigated sadist unless proven innocent or anything short of heinous?
@@dominicfucinari1942 prisoners are already proven guilty and convicted lmfao. You only rarely see someone exonerated.
Interesting video. I went to prison twice, the first time when I was 20, I got out when I was 24 then I went back at 27 and got out when I was 38. When I got out at age 38 I was a different person and simply had no desire to commit crimes or do dumb stuff anymore, I have been out since 2009 and have not even had a traffic ticket in that time. I am 52 now, I have been with the same employer for 12 years and I think my life is going pretty good considering where I have been. My last prison sentence was 151 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release and I remember the day in May of 2012 when I went into the Federal Courthouse in Minneapolis to see my Probation Officer for the last time, she asked me something to the effect of "what happened, you have a pretty serious record and did a lot of time but you got through probation with ease and are doing better than most people I see". I did not really have a answer for her, I just said that I have read that age is a factor in whether or not a person is going to reoffend.
I know prisons and jobs for inmates and what they pay vary from place to place, I did my time in the feds, worked in Unicor (prison industries) for most of that time, my pay topped out at $1.45 an hour, I was able to save up over $10,000 for release plus I paid off all my fines/court costs so I did not owe anything when I got out. The feds have a good thing where they place most inmates into a halfway house for the last six months of their sentence, this was the case for me and it allowed me time to obtain all my documents and line up a place to live. I also worked for several months while I was in there allowing me to save up even more money.
My perspective of it all is I committed some serious crimes, people were harmed and I went and paid a price for it. Whether or not my sentence was appropriate (too long, too short) can be debated but I came out a changed person and I wish that all prison systems afforded inmates the same opportunities that I had. If I didn't have something meaningful to do in there or any money in my pocket when I walked out the door or if they just kicked me out to the streets upon release instead of 6 months in a halfway house where I got assistance rebuilding my existence I doubt I would be a free man today.
At this rate I might finally find enough reasons to hate Reagan more than Margaret Thatcher
As an Irish guy they're on par with each other hopefully burning in hell
Ronnie and Tricky Dick fucked up everything.
If they were somehow twins separated at birth, I wouldn't be surprised
Oh, I can give you so many more reasons
It could be argued that Reagan's impact was worse by virtue of him being charge of the single global superpower at the time, but I 100% Maggie would have acted the same if the roles were swapped
"Prisoners are criminals and should be treated like criminals."
Until you change that mindset in people you will NEVER get prison reform.
That's always coming from mindless clowns who think they could never see the inside of a prison. Which means they both don't keep up with the law, or the decades of history of police locking up whoever the hell they want. I guarantee there's a law on every state's books that would allow the police to arrest every single one of those morons if they so chose. Obstruction is a time tested classic that lets police lock up literally any one they feel like. Once you're in the system things quickly change, especially if you have any assets worth seizing.
It immediately tells me I can ignore every damned thing those people will ever say. About anything. Because there's no such thing as being terminally clueless about just one single thing IME.
I don't see an issue with that statement though lmfao. Some people are just evil
Btw you'd be letting undeserving criminals run the streets by treating them better than they deserve
Thinking that people do crime because of poverty is the biggest sophistry i've ever heard.
It is both blatantly classist and ignores the millions of poor people who live without resorting to crime.
Maybe it's because they are just crappy people with bad desposition and would do things no matter if you gave them a lambo and a mansion.
It also blatantly ignores the fact that humans are animals made up of genes and thus some if not half of our behavior is governed by our biology. This universal egalitarian view of man is straight up illogical and it seems like an almost secular cult. It only causes more problems for everyone.
The A.C.E. study is a powerful tool to help people understand the question is not...what's wrong with you (them) the question should be WHAT HAPPENED?? I worked as a a
Substance Abuse counselor for years, went into prisons and jails, heard many stories, and it is no wonder that many end up broken, addicted, turn to crime..we need prisons and jails that have solid programs to NOT rehabilitate...but to habilitate...
You know if Trump actually goes to prison it won’t be anything like the horrible conditions current prisoners go through. He will be getting the best treatment ever.
He will get house arrest. He is shadowed by the secret service everywhere he goes. Just ponder the logistics of trying to get his protective detail into the prison to watch his a$$.
@@drdan75 I mean, in my opinion, the law kind of needs to change to no longer provide secret service protection to past presidents convicted of crimes related to insurrection. Why should someone who tried to overthrow the government get government protection for life?
Part of me hopes not, or he'll get assassinated by some wackjob. It's not like people did not end up in jail directly because of him, nor that he helped further make it worse by privatizing it, so it would be perfectly fitting karma. Perhaps if someone of his fame complains about the treatment inside the system, maybe it'll be enough to finally start fixing it.
It just wouldn't be fair to the people who are doing hard time for far less.
@@KidarWolf I think the fear is that a former president has access to national security secrets. So if you just turn him loose, and not keep a close eye on him, he could be targeted for those secrets.
@@drdan75 Donnie should be stripped of their secret service protection then.
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close but no cigar. she fails to mention who wrote the 1994 crime bill. i will save you the time its joe biden. she paints the picture as if it was only republicans that caused this issue. left wing and right wing are the same nut. until we can understand people of all color and religion are on the same side we will continue to get the short end of the stick. UNITED WE STAND DIVIDE WE FALL.
31 minutes and 10 seconds long and not the first issue brought to the surface... What exactly are we doing here again? 🤔
How about Black men stop killing each other?
@@MadScientist267 giving your dumb az$ critical race theory.
im a poor white disabled american i delt with many blacks and many spanish and many white middle class americans out of the blacks and spanish i delt with very few criminals like 3 percent out of white middle class americans i delt with many white middle class american criminals like 90 percent
It's insane the amount of addicts arrested for minor offences instead of being helped to clean up their lives and become productive members of society get turned into career criminals due to incarceration and the long term effects of criminal records.
And this is a world wide problem, in Australia where I live my partner served 7years for a car accident due to the judge being obsessed with her previous drug addiction even though she had quit 4 years earlier.
Although someone died in the accident her incarceration meant our 4yo son had to survive without his mother which was heartbreaking.
Now she's out the effects of trying to get work with a record "even for a highly educated woman" is even harder than I imagined, it must be impossible to find housing and jobs for uneducated people who have been in and out of prison and drug abuse.
It can't be a good situation for society in the long run compared to the use of rehabilitation and re education , which from what I can see would also cost far less for taxpayers.
OK, some people need to be separated from society. Some people are just bad. Only 5% of people who even try to get of drugs and alcohol do. I would love it if what you suggested is possible. It is not.
@@craigpoer If you were suffering from an addiction, would you believe that you should be exiled from society?
And "I would never suffer from addiction" or "I would be the 1 in 20 that overcome addiction" aren't answers here. I want to know about why if you were dealing with addiction you think you ought to lose access to family, friends, home, and healthcare like what happens to prisoners. If you really are incapable of placing yourself in this situation, then you have no justification for punishing others with it.
FIRST you pay the price ... and then you turn your life around.
Both are required if you hope to resolve everything as much as possible.
@@AnarchistEagle"If you were suffering from addiction"
Now you can just stop right there, it's low of you to even assume someone you are talking to is vulnerable enough to get up and addicted. You're foolish and fallacious for that lol.
Thank you SO MUCH for covering this topic. I gave five years of my life to the state in prison, serving 10 on post-release supervision (part of my sentence). I've been denied jobs, business loans, insurance, housing options, etc. Been fired, harassed, and accused of false charges. And it means so muvh to me to see this topic covered.
Btw, in MS, most of us didn't get paid a cent for our work and were punished by restricting viaitation/yard/canteen privileges for not working (but that was only in places with enough cameras. I lf your facility doesn't have enough cameras...well, that's different).
Perhaps you could move to Alaska and live in the wilderness. Hunt, fish for food. You can stay out of trouble that way!
@@alwaysfreedom9354least racist UA-camr comment
Thank you for stating the facts. It’s refreshing to hear honest information.
You really believe this? So millions of people died fighting to end slavery so we could make more people slaves through penitentiaries .
I have worked in the criminal justice system for 2 states. In Nebraska, a very broken system, felons were allowed several violations before being considered to go before the parole board and being sent back. Also, while they were incarcerated, they rarely had any programs or training offered to them. In contrast, Montana would send people back for nearly any violation. They also had training in the prison for automotive, electrician, plumber, and welding so that when the felon was released into the population, they had a trade and less likely to return to a life of crime.
I was a prison nurse for many years in California…I have no words
bros bout to become a dead by daylight killer 💀
I used to work in a prison as a guard. It was seriously the most miserable, traumatic and sad experience of my life.
Sometimes I think about the lives of so many men being wasted for no actual benefit to anyone but a handful of wealthy psychopaths.
That sucks, but as odd as it sounds, I'm glad you feel that way. It's a sign of your humanity and ability to grow, which are both sorely lacking in a whole lot of people. I've never been to prison personally, but some of my dearest friends did, some in some very rugged prisons.
Being in prison doesn't magically remove someone's humanity or value. And the idea that a lot of them were there simply because certain people most of us will never meet decided them continuing to make money was more important than other people being able to live their lives, was more important than the convict's families and futures. It's disgusting and needs to change.
I never understood it from a "should just deny oxygen" perspective.
Wow - you actually feel sorry for criminals who are in prison where they deserve to be, and where they are safely separated from the population.
Your priorities are very seriously messed up. Wow - you feel sorry for criminals.
@@scotthullinger4684 Wow, you misread and misquoted what was plainly said. That's a real shocker there.
@@scotthullinger4684 Wow - You actually have zero reading comprehension!
Imagine that... some pointless waste of oxygen with reading comprehension issues totally missing a point while running off with the narrative stuck in their head...
Former opiate addict here. Sober 3 years. I can't find a regular place to rent. It's impossible. Doesn't matter that I make $35 an hour with my own business. I have to rent rooms without a lease. I'm constantly moving for one reason or another. The last person I rented from tried to steal my entire $650 deposit.
Congrats on your sobriety. That sucks about having to move so often, but unless you can buy a house or the rules magically become more sane and humane, I don't know how it could change. Best of luck regardless, though. That's a hell of a story.
@@RevShifty I appreciate you.
You are a success story! You might not feel like it rn, with not having stable housing, but I bet you could be a great inspiration to people who are like you used to be. Keep up the good work! And when you feel down about, the best thing you can do is rest, not quit. ❤
One day at a time, lean on The Higher Power, lover of your soul, Creator of all, Yeshua ❤❤❤
There is a huge difference between State Prisons and Federal Prisons, and also, every state does things differently. For example, Texas or Florida Prisons seem to be absolutely horrendous compared to Colorado based on programs offered, incarceration and recidivism rates, etc. And even though Federal Prisons tend to pay more (for staff), the violence seems higher and they also have very limited programs in comparison to State Prisons. And there's states that have banned private Prisons as well (though community corrections tends to still be private-ran across the board).
I appreciate you Leeja and your perspective!
Thank you, Leeja. This information was censored from my Gov class as woke.
time to find another state to live in.
@@michaelfried3123 To be clear, my state didn't censor me. The parents and, as a result, administration censored me. At 3 different schools. In 10 years. All before the pandemic frenzy.
@@HomeEcSewing and they did that because your state politicians set them in motion to do that. I'd leave while you can if I were you, or stay and suffer more, up to you my friend.
@@michaelfried3123 At charter schools? Come on, now. This is not a state effort. This is so much more complicated than that, if you know anything about the American education system. I live in a great state. And I have lived in 7 states.
@@HomeEcSewing whatever.
Mandatory minimums “provide prosecutors with weapons to bludgeon defendants into effectively coerced plea bargains”
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Same, love her energy 😌
@@Pete_xp It's gonna take 10,000 Leejas and all their energy to make a difference in this nation. Almost our whole history, and literally our whole livelihood, is against it.
And don't be surprised when some of those Leejas end up in prison. It's where you go when you learn to call injustice as you see it.
I believe just like we have updated our perspective and methods on Prisons and Mental Hospitals before, since the 1500s we should always be considering new ways to change our views and practices on imprisonment, rehabilitation, sentencing and mental healthcare as well. Another great video btw I believe you left nothing uncovered.
I remember hearing that violent video games during the '90s could be one of the reasons for why less crimes were committed. The reason is that violent video games act as an outlet for people with violent behavior, and it allows them to get out that violent behavior in a safe and healthy manner.
Proof to your claim?
@@towanda1067 I can't post a link.
However, type this into google:
ESSENTIAL FACTS - ABOUT Games and Violence
Click the first link, and it will bring you to the a PDF.
@@towanda1067 Violent crime, particularly among the young, has decreased dramatically since the early 1990s. During the same
period of time, video games have steadily increased in popularity and use, exactly the opposite of what one
would expect if there were a causal link. Many games with violent content sold in the US - and some with far
more violence - are also sold in foreign markets.
The book American Prison by Shane Bauer is an easy, must read on this topic. He purposefully worked at a private prison in the south and reported the horrors experienced. Also dives deep into the history of incarceration in the USA.
There have been some studies that attribute the decline in crime in the US to the easy access to abortion after Roe. The unwanted-forced-to-be-born children would be coming of crime age in the early nineties. Makes sense to me. No one talks about it tho🤷♂️
No one talks about it because that makes no sense. At all.
A decline of children born to parents that don't want them/ can't afford them. Yeah I think that might check out.
Considering the expense of children and how poverty is a strong factor in criminal behaviour...
@@crzychill7623 It does make a lot of sense. This same effect is also seen among many other countries. It's easy to imagine that children forcefully borne against the wishes of their parents are less likely to fall into severe poverty and criminal activity. Absolutely noone is born a criminal. You must remember why a mother may want/need to terminate a pregnancy: poverty, being a single-parent, addiction, no access to healthcare, etc... All of these are factors associated with predesposition to severe crime. So it clearly makes a lot sense. I wonder why you so adamantly say otherwise when this trend is seen across the world.
Abused children do not all recover from abuse. One in four goes on to abuse other people... Lots of serial killers for example were abused and kill people who physically resemble their abuser.
Thanks for all your great work Leeja!
I love how you clearly you articulated how racism ties these issues all together. Great video!
Nevermind any mention of "maybe just quit acting like idiots" and "pull your pants up and maybe you can run"... or what about "hold a gun right and maybe the target won't be so elusive"... I could go on.
This is a good short summary. Watch Ava Duvernay’s documentary titled “13th” for a deeper dive. Once you get the first exposure to information about the prison industrial complex, many dots start to get connected.
Impeccable journalism , truly appreciate your content , keep fighting the good fight 🤝
Leeja, I am a civil rights paralegal. I've heard most of this stuff before. I just want to say that I enjoy your content and I am thankful for you!
So many videos! Love it. Have a good weekend Leeja ❤
I can’t wait until your channel hits a million! Everyone needs to see your videos.
The US Justice system isn"t about Justice. It's about maintaining and enforcing a certain vision of society, where some people don't have the same rights as the others, and where an elite benefit from rights that none other have.
Well stated and presented. Thank you for all you do.
Thank you so much for making this video! I appreciate all the research and effort put into all your videos.
Also, considering what you had to go through to get this video up, I would love to hear your thoughts on UA-cam censoring. Its the kind of complicated topic that requires thorough and thoughtful research, and there are dew I trust to do so effectively.
Freakanomics Guys did a great report on how legal abortion was also a big factor in reducing crime. Women who have children they actually want and can afford spend more emotional and physical resources with smaller family sizes. The entire family benefits. And this crime overall is reduced. So all these restriction on abortion will increase crime and poverty. As always a fantastic report, thanks for putting these out. They are mini political science and sociology courses.
Texas just had an additional 10,000 births since they outlawed abortions. Start looking for upticks in crime in about 16 years.
Your videos are superb. You're the first person since James Burke to present the connections that get us from where we started to where we didn't realize we ended up so clearly.
i think the reason for the decrease in crime statistics in the 90s is the world getting closer to each other and the transition to the communication and information age.
@7:33 Selling cotton "after dark" was not a crime. "After dark" was a euphemism for "by black people", which we now know as "black codes", laws that only applied to blacks.
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Great content as always, thank you! Keep 'em coming!
You are a gem; I am so glad I found your channel.
I have held prisoners, and I’ve been a prison abolitionist since not long after that (almost 20 years now). Criminality requires treatment and care, not segregation and pain. Violent crime is a disease generally needing of inpatient treatment, not harm and a life taken away.
I disagree. It is not a disease. It is a state of being.
@@lprice5583 A decent amount of current literature disagrees with you. It's not saying that it is a physiological disease, as in with external physical causes, but rather that it behaves, spreads, and effects people as a disease. It meets all the criteria for a disease. And not all examples of violence meet this, but in the terms we are talking it does.
Putting people in prison for violent crimes is like putting everyone with COVID in one big gym and expecting them all to get better. Putting violent criminals in prison with non-violent criminals is like the gym example, except you're also putting people with colds and flus in there too, or even with allergies, and expecting them all to just get better.
@@michelletheia9853 Maybe, no prisons. Just let the 120 million gun owners take care of them!
@@michelletheia9853I get it I think… so the violent offender that graped me is ACTUALLY him. The powerless victim of a terrible disease totally out of his control. Poor fella. I feel terrible this whole time thinking he was just a heartless violent horrible animal… shame on me I guess??the victim.. not me… but him
@@MadNlGER Except, of course, that I did not say they aren't at fault, nor that they are somehow "victims". I said nothing about their choices, I spoke of how *we* as a society react to their choices (and they are definitely choices). Effectively torturing someone (which is what our prison system in the US amounts to) does not do anything to lessen the harm they've already done, and makes them more likely to harm in the future. Torturing them does, on average, little to nothing to ameliorate the unconscionable harm they've already done to people such as yourself.
Not only that, but it makes those who are incarcerated alongside such violent offenders (often who did not commit truly violent crimes) in our terrible penal institutions more likely to do greater harm than already committed upon release.
Harm done out of illness is still harm done, and needs restitution and remediation, but it also needs na effort at rehabilitation, at treatment. Many will never recover, but in giving up on people, in giving up on the chance of their humanity, we give up on a little bit of our own humanity as well.
Make no mistake about it, our prison system, especially at the higher security tiers, is long-term torture. While those in your position might say "good" to that, there is a reason survivors do not get to decide their assailants' sentences.
As a trauma survivor myself, and one who has worked closely with other survivors, some in your positions, I know that it's not "fair" that you should endure such trauma while they do not, but, I repeat, traumatizing your traumatizer will not help your recovery and healing, it will not help our society as a whole, and it will not help us grow and become the people we could be.
Thank you, again, for your discussion of a subject which I have been talking about for decades.
Your videos are excellent! Thanks for sharing your legal insights into the complex web of interconnected political and socio-economic factors shaping the US - and much of the world today.
Thank you for the honesty in your documentary…
Very enlightened piece, ty. It raises the question of if there's any correlation between race and the rate of wrongful convictions; as well as how some states get away without being compelled to compensate an inmate whose life was stolen via same ... I'm familiar with a case where the gentleman served 39yrs before being exonerated. Partly due to legal malfeasance perpetrated by the prosecution...
I'm so glad you mentioned the leaded gas correlation and theory. I was so fascinated by that finding and it's great to see how comprehensive your research is.
Another great episode! - love from Australia!
Most prisons - federal and state - are located in far removed, largely rural places within a particular region or jurisdiction. This makes them the primary - if not only - mass employer around. Most lawmakers know this and are hesitant to close such facilities lest they impoverish these regions in fairly quick order. And, of course, the only way to keep them operational is to fill their facilities with - you guessed it - prisoners. ' I never knew a jail cell that couldn't use a prisoner' is the mantra here. 🤔
The school to prison pipeline is a Real thing. Systematic racism is a huge part of the prison system.
As a person from the ghetto, who in his youth sold narcotics and stole, the reasoning behind those types of crime is pretty clear cut. Desperation. A typical 9 to 5 only keeps you in a cycle of debt and slaving away to make someone else rich and not being able to afford further education you will think of incentive ways to not only stay a float, but to live your life. They know the solution to lower crime (it won't completely get rid of it) but making Healthcare, college and living cost manageable by universal Healthcare, free college and liveable wages. I knew a guy who sold dope to pay for his mother's medical bills. I haven't talked to him in 7 years, but last I heard he was facing 10 for just trying to keep his mother alive. Prison for profit is an issue. It ensures that businesses get a steady flow of inmates. Harder to pass laws for the betterment of society to ensure people are desperate.
From an outsider perspective, every aspect of American life just seems like one giant fuckin' scam. I live in Scotland and I'm unemployed at the moment due to ill health. Earlier this year I took an eye test, received a new pair of varifocals. Two weeks ago I had a root canal at my orthodontist. And yesterday I picked up my codeine prescription at the pharmacy. Total cost; $0. Our healthcare is paid through taxes, when I was working, this healthcare tax worked out at well under $100 per month.
There was a book, Freakonomics, that drew a correlation between the timing of the Roe vs Wade decision and the dropping crime rate
Haven’t watched yet but my guess is due to the system of private prisons and the money more prisoners bring alongside blatant racism in the legal system. 😊
Lovely lady, difficult to meet someone so direct and intelligent
Crack isn't just cocaine laced with bicarb or ammonia, they're used to remove the HCL salt and make it a base, hence the name "freebase". Removing that HCL salt raises the melting point making it so it can be smoked easier. Usually just the bicarb method is used now but there's multiple other things that can be used to remove the HCL salt too, bicarb is just the easiest way to do so.
On top of lead it was also 20 years after the passing of Roe meaning there was a lot less unwanted pregnancies which has a big impact on how well kids are cared for.
If you want to see the reason crime fell, i'd ask you to look to when roe v wade was overturned and when abortions and birth control became more widely available and when less unwanted children were turning 18 and kicked out of homes that didn't want them.
My cousin just died in prison weeks before he was scheduled to be released. Fellow inmates witness staff not render aid within reasonable time once he collapsed. This system needs to end we are losing people due to lack of Healthcare alone
I'm sorry for your loss. An almost total lack of mental health care in this country sure didn't help anything, either.
@@RevShifty thank u.
@Mhael_Logain per the medical report he clasped I'm not going by what a inmate or co says. I'm going by what the medical examiner paperwork says.
Reason for high increase in crime until leveling out in 90s. Crime rate was constant until expanded definition of crime so it rose, then leveled out
What shouldn't be missed are those knowingly innocent with no original jail or prison record or in some cases, no original contact with the law in any way. But scooped up put in jail sent to prison for an accusation not even fabricated poorly. Even in our modern times this is happening not only in America but in most European countries ,including Canada. Proof; people are being let out of prisons after serving decades on false easily proven charges. So leeja, another excellent cast and well thought out production. I'm a subscriber and didn't realize it was you until I looked at my screen. I thought it was a black woman. When I saw it was you, I wasn't surprised at all. You are her. And she is the it factor. All you wrapped up in one. Keep pushing sister. Keep pushing.❤
Imagine the cost and repercussions from false charges, and everything that comes along with it. Each case is different, but can even lead to criminal changes and ruined reputation themselves.
The book “Freakanomics” attributes the lower crime rate with the roe v wade decision.
This is peak America.
How long are we truly going to ignore the problem?
I'm a retired U.S Marine I've never been to prison but one of my sons have he was convicted for a murder he didn't commit he was in prison for 20 years before being exonerated he's out now doing very well has a job and support of a very large family, most men don't have family support upon release, or job prospects, my son is one of the lucky ones, I've traveled the world And I say this with sadness.....The United States of America is NOT the greatest country in the world, Sweden is better, I've been to Australia which is better, I've been to New Zealand which is better, believe it or not even Germany is better, My eldest son lives in Australia where he owns property he had dual citizenship and is still an American but in Australia he his wife and my grandchildren get free health care no payments for prescription medications, its much easier to qualify for home loans, and here's the clincher.....He's not threatened by Australian police or other citizens in any racist way for being an African American living in Australia, I can't believe I did two tours in Iraq almost lost my life had many good friends white and black and Hispanic die in combat missions to come home and hear our politicians say America is the greatest country in the world....its a complete lie! What we should be saying is 'America sucks' and may God bless America and everywhere else.
I worked in a maximum security prison for men 5 months. I didn't belong there, no female, gay man, or pretty man does.
If I had to spend the rest of my life as an inmate in any prison or jail, I'd rather be dead.
Absolutely no comfort. No fresh air. No change. The food is gross. People aren't nice.
What is this word you keep beeping? Is it rape? Are you really saying a word so offensive it can not be said aloud?
Too many of my friends have wrongly been wrongly imprisoned for drinking and driving. Too many people are in prison for DUIs I hope to see the day that all beveraged drivers are released with rights restored.
FUCK drunk drivers! They've killed a few of my family members, including my father. But yes, I don't know how throwing them in prison or rescinding their voting rights is gonna fix anything unless they've killed someone. Also, I don't know how applying the law differently depending on who gets caught helps solve the problem as a whole. It feels like poverty is criminalized at this point.
It's extremely hard to do prison time for a DUI. Getting caught 3 times at over 0.08 means consistently driving while drunk.
No. Too many people are in jails due to non-violent drug offenses. A DUI is *NOT* _non-violent._ It can escalate to _manslaughter_ charges.
@@Tonald_Drumpft Drunk driving is a victimless crime. My friend got arrested by the ZOGbots driving to a party. Too many of my friends have had to spend nights in cells by power hungry pigs.
@@kinoko9053I don’t know how throwing a person in prison helps at all with any instance of crime, there is a joy if the crime committed is especially heinous and if the perpetrator got away with it previously it’s simply delightful. However much I enjoy seeing “justice” or this illusion of it cause clearly nobody feels right about prison, I mean first and foremost nobody should want to go to prison- but I can’t help but feel in many other parts of the world with better criminal justice systems that the reason for not wanting to go to prison is much different- you shouldn’t do wrong and harm, or if you’re a psychopath you simply don’t want to be removed from the life you should be enjoying. In America people don’t want to go for those reasons, sure- but everybody makes mistakes, all of you have committed crimes and you may think that’s hyperbolic but strictly from a legal standpoint. Imagine yourself without necessarily even being aware you have committed anything, maybe you wrote a bounced check, or you misfiled something with taxes. You are now going to a place where you are treated less than human everyday, where potentially you could be murdered, at least beat, people joke about rape in prison in a way you’ll never see lightly for any other circumstance. And the “reform” never really happens, in fact your life’s in pieces, and depending on your social circle, state, whatever you may have nothing and nobody. And then it’s just that much easier to fuck up again, it’s just made that way to imprison people for life no matter what. And I think everyone’s afraid of that. Unless you’re wealthy or influential then you can shoot someone in broad daylight and get off scot-free with the right (priciest) lawyer.
This video covers so much ground, wow
Age out of criminal behavior....if they just had something to focus on, good job, education, trade school, working towards a first home. Give a man a fishing pole.
I am curious how future generations will remember this complete fail of a country.
Looking at the mindset of many Americans regarding the state of their country, the efforts of Nixon and Reagan to manipulate public discourse might literally end up in history books next to the tactics of Goebbels in Nazi Germany. Unfortunately it will probably take a little longer to get there in this case.
Good luck to you all from Germany!
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I remember a book called Freakonomics which showed correlation of Roe v. Wade and how crime dropped significantly 18 years afterwards.
Prison industrial complex vs military industrial complex.😮
To my understanding, U.S. doctors used to prescribe WAY more strong opioids for even the smallest aches, instead of using alternatives like paracetamol, NSAIDs or even weak opioids. So part of the OD's are explained by normal patients - mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers - overdosing by accident.
But seems like the rates have gone down significantly in 10 years, I found a research paper where USA has gone from being the highest dosages of morphine equivalent used per 1000 inhabitants worldwide (>1600 at 2009) to 3rd highest dosages per 1000 inhabitants (~1100 at 2019) worldwide. The paper didn't provide numbers for each country (and I didn't bother to comb through the references), so I can't say HOW much more than 1600 it was in 2009, but usage has gone down at least one third in there.
Punishment is something that happens usually immediately with a short duration for a particular situation. Imagine punishing your dog in a painful way over and over for something bad they did over a year ago. Prolonged punishment for any situation is basically abuse which inflicts long lasting trauma and unintended consequences. This type of prolonged punishment is the opposite of rehabilitation.
Incarceration facilities of any kind should be converted to NON PROFIT REHABILITATION centers managed and run by psychologists and social workers
I didn't hear it mentioned but some prisons make you pay your own rent on your prison stay🤢🤢🤢 while in prison you don't earn any money...
And remember: if you are okay with denying a convicted felon approval for an apartment, then you support punishing that person’s children for the choices of their parents. Same goes for denying free and reduced lunch to students.
Thank you. Aramark sounds like a great investing opportunity.
Little quibble, "crack" cocaine is not cocaine that is cut with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate. It is cocaine that is processed with those agents in a chemical reaction that separates the stimulant pure cocaine from the powder "base" - hence "freebase" making it smokable and more quickly absorbed in the bloodstream.
Aramark also provides hospital and school food... I worked at a hospital and we had Aramark trucks in the parking lot literally every day. The FDA rates food in 3 categories. Hospitals/schools/prisons are all in the lowest categories. So food not good enough for grocery stores and restaurants etc, is sold to prisons/schools/hospitals.
I can attest to many of the assertions of this video, and it is one of many sources I have seen that confirm my worst fears.
Another brilliant video! This is like the short version of "The New Jim Crow," which I read on your recommendation. It's just so frustrating because it doesn't need to be this way.
Good piece, thank you for the transparency
I won’t specify what he did but when I was little my parents divorced and then at some point years later my father turned to a life of crime and got caught. Some point after I stopped seeing him he lost his home and I think as a result he kept turning to a life of crime and getting caught on purpose just for a place to live (I’m not 100% if that’s the case but I do know that behind bars is his only home now). The reason why I make this assumption is because a few years ago I looked him up on a criminal database and in his mugshot he seemed genuinely happy to be there. He did some heinous stuff but I wouldn’t wish this upon even my worst enemy.
When Jay walking is a felony you know we have a problem.
Wow, you totally left Lyndon Johnson off the hook for his war against (the predecessor to the war on drugs).
Per population Scotland has a higher drug death rate than the US and is 4x higher than anywhere else in Europe, you included the United Kingdom which is like having the European Union as a nation, Scotland is a constitutional nation within the UK, the UK is a state not a nation, the drug graph was incorrect.
Hey Leeja this touch on how the country created policies against my people is incredible…it’s a very odd to least being a black man in this country I kinda was just born dark and despised for it that’s very very strange and a lot to carry but it’s all good✊🏿 I love life and people like you who are just livin’
Choices and consequences
SODEXO received a federal food services contract about a decade ago. They serve the military, a large percentage of federally funded colleges, and federal prisons. They have a work release program that let's some work in military chow halls.
One of the factors around the decrease in homicide is the increase in medical intervention skills. More gunshot injuries but less death. 22:15
We need a highly educated population of successful people. As Jesse Jackson said we do not need more prisons, we need more successful people and having less people in prison. Better if we all live in prosperity, rather than fighting over the scraps.
My father is in Federal prison. He was sentenced to 43 years, 30 mandatory minimum for first time offender drug charges. He just turned 70 this August and he will not come home until 2043. He has been on good behavior the entire time and he works in the prison as well making 12 cents an hour. Sucks
Sucks to suck. He was probably evading taxes too tho lol
@@debeb5148 are you just going through the comments and leaving shitty responses? Seems like it. You must be bored. Yeah I guess you’d know that is sucks to suck.
Aramark also supplied my high school (and who knows how many other high schools) on the south side of Chicago.
i wanted to make this type of content but your channel is SOOOO GOOD!
Yeah the 13th needs to be rewritten